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[AnotherSpin]

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Other interesting listens today: Mahler Symphony No. 7 - Kondrashin/Moscow PhilharmonicLeningrad Philharmonic.  Melodiya's recording is decent stereo, though the strings sound a bit recessed.  Actually I wish Kondrashin's Moscow Shostakovich recordings were this good.   I have not compared the Leningrad Mahler 7 to the Concertgebeow recording.

I remember a discussion comparing the two Kondrashin recordings of Mahler's Seventh on a certain post-Soviet forum many years ago. Most people favored the Concertgebouw version and I was agree. It seems the one with the Soviet orchestra suffered from shitty sound, in addition to its other shortcomings.

[Harry]

Thomas Vincent. (1720-1783) "The Virtuoso Oboist".
Sonatas for Oboe & Bc op.1 Nr.1-6.
Intarsio Armonico. Giuseppe Falciglia, Baroque Oboe.

An composer totally unknown to me, as is the ensemble and its members. The oboist and composer Thomas Vincent was Giuseppe Sammartini's favorite pupil and one of the leading oboe virtuosos in London at the time. His sonatas for oboe and basso continuo, published in 1748 as Op.1, incorporate both French and Italian stylistic elements and are characterized by particularly effective and idiomatic writing for the instrument. A world premiere recording with the baroque oboist Giuseppe Falciglia and the Ensemble Intarsio Armonico. Rather formalistic works, -a bit derivative- pointing to other composers of his time, but not without interest. It does not sparkle, but faithfully reproducing the notes, without much compassion. Still nice to hear. The recording is good, but it does not involve you in the music or environment.

[Harry]

Giovanni Legrenzi.
Duo- and Trio sonatas op.2 Nr.1-17 (1655).
Parnassi Musici.

Parnassi Musici, always deliver quality performances, and therefore I consider them one of the best ensembles Germany produced. Many came close, few are equal, and many failed to deliver the same artistry as PM. This said, the present CD holds works by a rather elusive composer, really not that much recorded, but what is on the market always astonished me, through delivering well written music, perfectly in balance and handcrafted into individual jewels. So also the opus 2 sonatas from 1655, gems of great worth. Excellent sound, intimate, detailed, and played with grace, and elegantly depicted. Recommended.

[Traverso]

Mozart

CD 2

[Harry]

Mozart

CD 2

You posted  these recordings so often, that I am getting curious how they sound and how well they are performed, so they are bookmarked.

[AnotherSpin]

Magnificent recording, thank you, @Mandryka. So much light, air, and simplicity. Who came up with calling those times Dark?

If anyone has recommendations for similar recordings, please share.

[Traverso]

You posted  these recordings so often, that I am getting curious how they sound and how well they are performed, so they are bookmarked.

Well, I'm very curious about your findings. Pentatone has released a new recording of these concertos with a very young Chloe Chua. This one, however, with Julia Fischer, is more appealing to me.

[Harry]

Well, I'm very curious about your findings. Pentatone has released a new recording of these concertos with a very young Chloe Chua. This one, however, with Julia Fischer, is more appealing to me.

I will squeeze them in my list as soon as I can, fortunately my audio has finally settled, so I can go full blast into all those recordings waiting for some time now.

[AnotherSpin]

[Mister Sharpe]

Oh my, I didn't know that ! The picture shows a bit of a 1937 Bugatti - was that the make of car Ferroud drove ?

Someone at Naïve must have had that piece of info at the back of his mind when creating the cover for the disc. Other disturbing bits: works on the disc include 'Jeunesse' (Youth) and 'Chirurgie' (Surgery). Creepy stuff.

The music is very fine. I think I posted something about it in august 2024.

For English speakers, it may be even more macabre, as one's attention is naturally drawn to the "headlight." (Ferroud was decapitated when his car overturned due to un éclatement de pneumatique and the shards of window glass worked like a guillotine, "une mort affreuse," declared l'Art musical) while Comoedia called it "an accident stupide.") But that may be reading overmuch into it! Unfortunately, I don't know the make and model of Ferroud's car (he was driving). 

[Iota]

Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D958
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)

Marvellous in every way.

[Florestan]

"une mort affreuse," declared l'Art musical) while Comoedia called it "an accident stupide."

The difference in assessment could have been anticipated simply by comparing the names of the two journals. 

[Mister Sharpe]

One of the ways I make favorite holidays last longer is to start previewing music I might listen to when the actual day arrives.  St. Cecilia's Day is one of those (Nov. 22) and - truth to tell - it's a forgone conclusion that I am going to enjoy any music dedicated to the patron saint of music.  That's a considerable and disparate batch of music! BTW, I have been dipping into (that's distinct from actually finding the time to read) King's book and finding it fascinating (the author is not a musicologist, but an enthusiastic and ever-engaging fan who knows as much about Handel as he does the times in which he lived, and that's a lot!).

[Todd]

[Traverso]

Mozart

Just got home after a  covid vaccination. More Mozart, this time one of my favorite symphonies, No.29.Krips/Concertgebouw Orchestra

 

[Madiel]

Dvorak: Rhapsody in A minor, op.14



The recording of the rhapsody/symphonic poem is a little on the flat side (not much detail to the orchestra), but the performance has plenty of life to it.

Written soon after the 4th symphony. I kind of long to see some conductor/orchestra do a Dvorak cycle where it's not just the symphonies, but they use all the other options of Dvorak's extensive orchestral works as couplings. He wrote so many other orchestral works, even if you don't include the arrangements of chamber or piano music. A really conservative list would give you 15 works besides the symphonies that are of decent scale.

[Karl Henning]

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[Madiel]

Second half of Vivaldi recorder (or flute/violin) concertos



Possibly I'm just in a more receptive mindset, but La tempesta di mare and Il gardellino strike me as the best things on here because they're both so clearly pictorial. I think the recorder benefits from the music having that extra character.

[hopefullytrusting]

Asked Copilot for pieces similar to Liszt's, Gnomenreigen, and it recommended Rachmaninoff's Polichinelle in F sharp minor desribing it as similar in character - whimsical and fast, but slightly heavier in texture but more direct in its bravura (a correct assessment in my book), and now I have a whole new round of Rachmaninoff pieces to hear that I didn't even know existed - the Morceaux!

Scherbakov playing Op. 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhi9SzopnLE
Voskresensky playing Op. 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-t6U5Qqycw

[Madiel]

Earlier today, Beethoven op.1/1 (Stern, Rose and Istomin)